The SSILD test. - 30 days.

**Venryx** · 01-15-2013 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Using more than one technique is no problem if you only add SSILD one month and look at it versus the previous month.

The problem is that my personality is to try everything, and I want to try them all at once, so I end up mixing in all sorts of other techniques in an attempt to shallowly test lots of others while deeply testing the main technique. So the results are still getting jumbled, even if comparing "with SSILD" to "without SSILD", since the secondary techniques change so much.

I know it might not be the best way to do it, but my impatience makes it almost "boring" to do it one at a time for a month. (I'm searching for the "perfect" method, which will eventually allow me to have lucid dreams at will--even though I know the main thing is persistence. I have a childlike hope that there must be a way that just works, for nearly everyone, nearly every time. Actually, that's a large part of all this testing, I have a very strong pull towards finding the "silver bullet" in things, even when there probably isn't one.)

**Sensei** · 01-15-2013 05:50 PM

Yeah, if it works keep it, and then switch to the next month as that + something new.

You can wake up after every REM and try to DEILD, if it doesn't work, SSILD every REM. and then later you can WBTB and try and WILD and if you wake up during all this it will increase your chances for DILD/MILD. Plan out each night! Sleeping 8 hours makes the nights a long time to try and LD.

**Buhl** · 01-15-2013 09:35 PM

Day 10
Nothing much, remembered more dreams than usual. 4-5.

Day 11
I had an intense nightmare involving 3 giant spiders (oddly, in the dream i bought them and kept them as pets in glass cages, which is something i would never do in real life), i walked into the kitchen to find a cockroach on the wall. As i came near it, it said; "It's your fault that they are free", which first of all made me lucid, and secondly, turned the whole thing into a nightmare. I could hear these spiders skittering around but i couldn't see them anywhere, and that freaked me out. I didn't get the time to do anything with my lucidity and i woke up a few seconds later bathed in sweat and breathing heavily. Do any of you guys think nightmares are related to stress?

Lucids: 2 FAs: 5

**Venryx** · 01-15-2013 11:16 PM

Day 12

Disrupted attempt, no results except a 3 second tactile-only DEILD. (lots of noise, the vacuum was being used right outside my room for like half an hour!)

I'm not going to count it in the 30 attempts, because of the disruption, and because my Mom wanted me to get up before I was done trying. (though I'm still going to count it towards my LD total, since technically I was lucid; you might think that would disrupt comparisons, but it's fine, because it's made up for by lucid dream chains that I record as a single dream. For instance, yesterday, I counted two dreams as one since they both happened during the same "attempt", before I gave up on trying, so I recorded them in the same DJ entry, and thus as a single "dream".)

Attempts: 7, Lucids: 3, OBE's: 1, FA's: 10, HI's: 1

**Buhl** · 01-16-2013 07:17 PM

Day 12

Moooooaaar stress at work which prevents me from getting a good nights sleep. I guess it's not a lucky time to try out new techs.

**ryman** · 01-17-2013 01:24 AM

day 12:
no results,

Day 13:
No time for WBTB but I became lucid twice throughout the night. One of the dreams I tried to jump through a window and start flying, it did not work.

**Venryx** · 01-17-2013 04:05 AM

Day 13

Argh, I had like 3 disrupted attempts WBTB attempts today. Every time I got close to falling asleep, I'd be called to go help with something. Really disappointing because I'm quite sure I would have had one. (you can tell to some extent by "that feeling" when you're close to falling asleep, that accompanies lucid dreams--something about the way your mind and body feels, though it's hard to describe)

Attempts: 7, Lucids: 3, OBE's: 1, FA's: 10, HI's: 1

**Venryx** · 01-17-2013 04:08 AM

Yeah, DEILD looks pretty promising, I almost did it a few days ago accidentally, and I did it this morning for the first time! (although I lost it as soon as I 'opened my eyes' and started explained things away)

Still going through with the SSILD test, I like it as well because it's relatively non-time-consuming.

**ryman** · 01-17-2013 06:03 PM

Day 14:
No results one dream fragment remembered.

**Venryx** · 01-18-2013 12:37 AM

Day 14

Another lucid, and three more false awakenings.

Here's the account: Lucid Dream 22 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Attempts: 8, Lucids: 4, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**Buhl** · 01-18-2013 09:35 PM

Day 13 & 14
No time.

Finally done with work today, which should let me focus on the task this weekend.

**Venryx** · 01-19-2013 01:29 AM

Day 15

No results this attempt.

Attempts: 9, Lucids: 4, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**Venryx** · 01-19-2013 11:00 PM

Day 16

Another lucid. (though this time no false awakenings)

Here's the account: Lucid Dream 23 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**CosmicIron** · 01-20-2013 05:47 AM

Originally Posted by Venryx

Day 16

Another lucid. (though this time no false awakenings)

Here's the account: Lucid Dream 23 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

Your success rate is sky rocketing, LOL

**faxman** · 01-20-2013 10:50 AM

I have been using this method on and off since it was first originally posted here. For now I only had a lot of FA. I don't consider these as a failure because at least there are things happening. I hope to have success soon.

**enak101** · 01-20-2013 11:03 AM

Yeah Venryx, your going awesome lol. I have to keep trying this, keep falling asleep after alarm not bothering to focus. Promise to try it tonight.

**Sensei** · 01-20-2013 03:00 PM

You can do it enak! Gotta stay focused like venryx! Believe it will work.

**ryman** · 01-21-2013 05:32 AM

Day 15, 16, and 17 nothing no time

**Venryx** · 01-21-2013 07:59 AM

Day 17

No time, no attempt, no result.

Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**Buhl** · 01-22-2013 01:45 PM

Haven't been able to post here since i got sick Saturday.

Day 15, 16, 17
Nothing worth reporting.

Day 18
I went to bed around midnight, still sick at this point so i called in sick around 6:30.
I feel asleep again around 7:00 doing SSILD for about 10 minutes and had a dream where i went for a walk (I do this everyday).
I suddenly got the idea of RC'ing, and sure enough, LUCID!

This LD is the first really long LD i have ever had, and it was amazing how vivid it was. I went around town looking at the sky (it was sooooooo bright and beautiful) and the city architecture. I also tried flying but failed horribly. x'D
I also made other DCs lucid, by telling them to do random reality checks, it was so fun to watch.

Lucids: 3 FAs: 5

**Venryx** · 01-22-2013 05:11 PM

Day 18 (Yesterday)

I forgot to do this yesterday!

Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**ryman** · 01-23-2013 04:02 AM

Day 18, 19: nothing, On a bad streak, I'm in the process of doing midterm exams at school so that has definitely thrown me off focus. Midterms are done this week though and I'll be good

**Venryx** · 01-23-2013 08:29 AM

Day 19

I didn't have/didn't want to spend time on lucid dreaming today. (I was working on a programming project)

Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

**Buhl** · 01-23-2013 08:55 PM

Day 19
Close to a DEILD, but i got a shock from the sensations when i woke up, so my heartrate woke me up.

**ryman** · 01-24-2013 03:26 AM

Day 20: went to bed at around 10pm woke up at 3am for WBTB, I was really tired so I just quickly jotted down a dream I remembered and then began the ssild cycles, I fell asleep really fast. I ended up having a DILD, I was standing in my kitchen when I randomly decided to do the nose plug rc. I didn't do much before I woke up.